Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 'A Sayre [Satire] upon the Times'
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00692 Author/Creator: Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript Date: 1702 Pagination: 3 p. : docket : Height: 29.7 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy
Verse entitled "A Saytr upon ye Times." Caustic critique of an "Unhappy York," where a manipulative church and king have allowed the colony's political affairs to become rife with corruption and hypocrisy. In New York "villians triumph under a pretence of loyalty and make the laws their tools to serve their wicked ends and cherish fools."
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